thyroxin

Variant of thyroxine

noun

a colorless, crystalline compound, CHINO, the active hormone of the thyroid gland, often prepared synthetically and used in treating goiter, cretinism, and myxedema
also thyroxin

Origin: thyr(o)- + ox(y)- + -ine

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